THE House of Commons was busied on Monday with Army Esti- mates and the Bombay .Judicature; on Tuesday, with the State of the Poor, the Administration of Justice, and the Union...

Peers an address has been voted without opposition, and, unless on the question of the expedition against Algiers, almost without re- mark. CHATEAUBRIAND made a declamatory...

about the second week in April. His Majesty gave an audience on Monday to Prince Leopold and the Earl of Aberdeen, previous, it is said, to the Prince's final depar- ture for...

has been returned. Mr. Wellesley resigned, at an early period, in favour of Colonel Conyers. Ile had stood upon the independent interest, and had pledged himself to retire...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EvExixo.—Although we have h ad no very exten- sivetransactions this week, we have nevertheless had some fluctuations of mo- ment. On Saturday last, the...

Tuesday till quarter past three ; on Wednesday till one ;- on Thursday till one; and on Friday till nearly two. The House of Lords has not sat later than six during the week. On...

place on Monday, in the grounds attached to the Eagle Tavern, City Road, for the purpose of forming a Metropolitan Political Union. Upwards of 20,000 persons, it is said,...

murders commenced on Thursday, at Worcester. The facts disclosed at the Coroner's inquest must be fresh in our readers' memories : we shall merely mention, that the Rev. Mr....

a subsequent page of this paper, that the officers of his Majesty's Mint have renewed the offers of reward for the apprehension of Keith. An idle paragraph, stating that Keith...

of the Guards and several friends, came off on Monday. The distance was about four miles. Sixteen horses started. The ground was gone over in seventeen minutes by the winner,...

swinging on a rope for amusement, by some strange mischance twisted it round his neck, and expired before he was perceived and cut down. About one o'clock on Monday morning, a...

on the 2d Dec.— San g ur on the 5th—the Cape on the 16th Jan.—and iSt. Helena on the 30tia. Sin g apore papers have been received by her to the 7th Nov., which confirm the...

ON Mr. GORDON'S motion, that officers on full pay, as well as those on half-pay, should lose their military emoluments on accepting of situations under Government, Sir HENRY...

WHEN we discussed the Malt and Beer Taxes some time ago, we ex- pressed an opinion that they could not be repealed. We are of this opinion still ; and indeed, could we spare...

EMIGRATION SCHEMES. THE House of Commons swarms with a small fry of projectors, who agree only in evincing on all occasions the most generous contempt for the schemes of each...

SINCE our last notice of this question, some valuable evidence has been given before the Committee appointed to inquire into the expe- diency of opening the tea trade. It puts...

WE have often heard of the terrible effects of the Bill for Suppressing Small Notes, but we were not aware of the full extent of its influ- ence. A pamphleteer of the day,...

A NEW Ballet, founded on ROSSINI'S Guillaume Tell, has been produced with more show than success. Though relieved by some vocal music, it is tedious and heavy, having these...

KEAN tried to play Henry the Fi.1111 on Monday, and failed com- pletely. The audience—or a part of the audience, sufficiently vocife- rous to pass for the whole—refused at last...

MR. IT 1WES lieads his bills thus, "A grand Selection of Ancient and Modern Music ! ! ! "—and in truth, his marks of admiration are not misapplied. Such a discordant and...

WE have no remembrance of a • play more effectivelg acted than the Gamester at Covent Garden ; yet we are confident, that a person who received his impressions from the...

THIS is a most anomalous production : physiological descriptions of the five senses, interspersed with fragments of sermons or moral dis- courses, are followed by tales,...

MRS. HEMANS—BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE FOR FEBRUARY. IT is the enviable privilege of the critic, that he may gratefully re- pay the pleasure he receives, by pointing out the object...

2. Constable's Miscellany—The Crusades, Vol. 2. 3. Family Classical Library—Xenophon, Doyne Sillery. Vol. 1.10. The Stolen Boy. By Mrs. Hofiand. 5. Foreign Quarterly Review,...

able treatise on the general principles of Free Trade, and on the nature of the influence which it exercises on the great family of nations. That influence he truly describes as...

A PEEP AT THE PRINT-SHOPS. PORTRAITS. THE present is an age of portraiture, personality, and autobiography ; and, without going out of our way to discuss whether this...

MR. WEST MACOT VS fourth Lecture on Sculpture consisted principally of an examination of the works of the Phidiac and Praxitilean schools,—those of the former distinguished by...